Name: Baton; Date: 1919; Country: Great Britain; Town: London; Materials: wood, silver; Measurements: length 43,7 cm, diameter 2 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 11; Description:

a two-part baton, screwed together; the conic core was made of brigh wood and finished with a silver fitting at the tip of the bulb, with an octagonal section (largely bent); each component has a characteristic leaf-themed engraving with a somewhat simplified, angular contour (the same leaf motif on octagonal fittings can be encounters in other batons from the same collection, nos. 75, 100, 101, 112; also visible on another fitting in baton no. 162); as per the hallmark, the baton was stamped in London in 1919

; Inscriptions:

none

; Catalog card:

Joanna Gul, consultation: Magdalena Szmida-Półbratek (City Museum of Wrocław)

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